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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2010
Keisuke Kimura, Ishikawa, JP;
Keisuke Kimura, Ishikawa, JP;
PFU Limited, Ishikawa, JP;
Abstract
A conveying device, comprising: a linear conveyance route on which a sheet-like medium is linearly conveyable; a bent conveyance route that is branched from the linear conveyance route and on which the medium is conveyable in a bent manner; a switching member provided at the branched portion and movable into a bent conveyance position for guiding the medium to the bent conveyance route and into a linear conveyance position for guiding the medium to the linear conveyance route, according to a force acting from the medium at a time of coming in contact with the medium; and a variable pressurizing unit configured to make a force acting on the medium from the switching member in the linear conveyance position smaller than a force acting on the medium from the switching member in the bent conveyance position.
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